Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 83
On the window seat stood two curious flower-pots which a sailor, named Christian, had brought over from the East or West Indies.
Who acts: two curious flower pots · What happens: stand, sailor, name, bring over · To what, where: window seat, sailor, East
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two curious flower pots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 seat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seat | det |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seat | compound |
| 4 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pots | nummod |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pots | amod |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pots | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 flower | punct |
| 10 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sailor | nsubj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sailor | nsubj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sailor | det |
| 13 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 named | punct |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sailor | acl |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 East | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 East | det |
| 23 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 Indies | cc |
| 25 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Indies | compound |
| 26 | Indies | indy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 East | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the window seat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location | |||||
| 2 | sailor | two curious flower pots | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | name | participle | a sailor not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring over | past · perfect | the East or West Indies | over property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from east=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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